ADOLF HITLER BIOGRAPHY
Adolf Hitler was born, April 20th 1889, Braunau-am-Inn, Austria.
His father Alois, worked as a customs officer.
Adolf Hitler attended school at age six.
For the first 39 years of his life he bore his mother's surname, Schicklgruber.
In 1876, he took the surname of his stepfather, Johann Georg Hiedler.
The name was spelled Hiedler, Huetler, Huettler and Hitler and probably changed to Hitler by a clerk.
Allied propaganda attempted to exploit Hitler's original family name during World War II.
Pamphlets bearing the phrase "Heil Schicklgruber" were airdropped over German cities.
But he was legally born a Hitler and was also related to Hiedler via his maternal grandmother, Johanna Hiedler.
In 1896, Klara gave birth to Hitlers sister, Paula.
Hitler had a poor record at school.
In 1907 Adolf Hitler went to Vienna Austria where he failed the entrance exam to the Academy of Fine Arts.
Adolf Hitler lived in cheap rooming houses or slept on park benches.
Hitler was a German-speaking Austrian, who considered himself German.
In 1913, Adolf Hitler went to Munich, Germany.
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Then in 1914, volunteered for the German army during W.W.11.
The Versailles Treaty stripped Germany of much of its territory, disarm, and pay huge reparations.
In 1920, Adolf Hitler joined the National Socialist German Workers Party which was known as the "Nazis".
On November 9, 1923, Adolf Hitler led more than 2,000 Storm Troopers on a march to seize the Bavarian government.
Hitler set up the "Schutzstaffel" (SS).
Adolf Hitler became a German citizen on February 25, 1932.
In the July elections, the Nazi Party won 230 out of the 608 seats in the Reichstag.
On the night of February 27, 1933, the Reichstag was destroyed by fire.
The Enabling Act, placed before the Reichstag on 23rd of March 1933, allowed the powers of legislation to be taken away from the Reichstag and transferred to Hitler's cabinet for a period of four years.
President Hindenburg died on August 2nd 1934.
Hitler oversaw one of the greatest expansions of industrial production and civil improvement Germany had ever seen.
Hitler also oversaw one of the largest infrastructure-improvement campaigns in German history, with the construction of dozens of dams, autobahns, railroads, and other civil works.
Hitler ordered the army to be trebled in size, from the 100,000 man Versailles Treaty limit, to 300,000 men by October of 1934.
Adolf Hitler then annexed Austria.
On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler advanced on Russia.
In the last days of the Third Reich, the Russians troops were inside of Berlin.
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler
But Russia, has outlined a different scenario.
When Russian troops entered Berlin in 1945, they dug up the remains.
They then reburied Hitler in Magdeburg, East Germany.
Yuri Andropov ordered the bones dug up and destroyed in 1970.
However, the KGB found skull fragments in the bunker of Hitler and took them to Moscow.
Moscow first announced it had the fragment in 1993
His mother was Klara.
Adolf Hitler had a younger brother who only lived until the age of six.
Hitler claimed his educational slump was a rebellion against his father, who wanted the boy to follow him in a career as a customs official; Hitler wanted to become a painter instead.
This explanation is further supported by Hitler's later description of himself as a misunderstood artist.
When Adolf Hitler was thirteen his father died.
He took the entrance exam again a year later and failed.
Often getting meals from charity kitchens.
Adolf Hitler was twice decorated for bravery.
Hitler served in France and Belgium as a runner for the 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment (called Regiment List after its first commander).
He drew cartoons and instructional drawings for the army newspaper.
He received the Iron Cross, Second Class, in 1914 and the Iron Cross, First Class, in 1918, an honour rarely given to a Gefreiter.
At the end of World War I, Adolf Hitler was in a hospital recovering from temporary blindness caused by a poison gas attack.
Germany was forced into despair.
The country was bankrupt.
Millions people were unemployed.
Hitler soon became leader of the Nazi party.
Adolf Hitler organized an army for the Nazi party called the Storm Troopers ("Brown Shirts").
The attempt failed.
Hitler was arrested and sentenced to prison for five years.
However, Adolf Hitler only served nine months in prison before being released.
By 1929, the Nazis had become an important political party.
By 1932, the Nazis had become the largest Party in Germany.
Hitler demanded he be made Chancellor.
However, he was offered only the position of Vice-Chancellor.
This he refused.
This gave Hitler an excuse to have the Communist deputies of the Reichstag arrested.
President Hindenburg gave the Nazi goverment powers to inter anyone they thought was a threat to the nation, and suppress free speech.
By July 14th Adolf Hitler had proclaimed a law stating that the Nazi Party was to be the only political party allowed in Germany.
A plebiscite was held and Adolf Hitler became the "Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor".
On March 7th 1936, German troops marched into the demilitarised areas of Germany towards Aachen, Trier and Saarbruecken.
He then occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939.
Adolf Hitler then invaded Poland.
France and England then followed by declaring war on Germany.
In both Denmark and Norway were under his control.
He then moved to defeat France.
This was going to be his eventual downfall.
Stalingrad was the beginning of the end for Adolf Hitler.
Just what really happened to Adolf Hitler from here is a matter of opinion.
It was said, Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945.
His companion, Eva Braun, is thought to have killed herself with cyanide.
It is then thought that the bodies were burned with petrol, then buried in a shallow grave.
But many believed this was a ploy.
It was thought he escaped.
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